.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston carries an assortment of one-of-a-kind accountabilities as well as privileges. Those include being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.One of those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is right now readying to launch to the International Spaceport Station in addition to Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning mission under NASA's Commercial Workers System. This will definitely be actually the 3rd launch as well as 2nd purpose to the spaceport station for Hague, that was actually chosen as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and has invested 203 times precede.Hague was birthed and increased in Kansas however has actually crisscrossed the nation for college and job. He made degrees from the USA Air Force School in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Principle of Technology in Cambridge, and also he joined the united state Aviation service Exam Pilot College at Edwards Air Force Base in The Golden State. Hague's military job has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and also included a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transferred from the Aviation service to the United State Area Force in 2020 after acting as the Space Force's director of examination and also evaluation at the Pentagon.Familiar with brand-new locations, Hague strongly recalls producing his 1st journey to Johnson when he was questioning to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no concept what to expect, as well as it was actually a little mind-boggling. I knew everyone was actually enjoying me as well as judging me," he stated. "Fortunately, although I had not been chosen at that point, I got yet another possibility a handful of years later. It is actually a fairly magical place.".Hague finished his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st rocketeer course. He was the very first rocketeer from that group to be appointed to a goal, which released in October 2018 however was actually aborted not long after takeoff. His next spaceflight took place in 2019, when he signed up with 3 of his friends-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has brought in numerous moments at Johnson, but one that stands apart is his knowledge operating onsite amidst the 2013 federal government cessation. "I am actually active-duty armed forces so I still came to operate," he discussed. "I keep in mind being actually onsite and the facility being actually completely empty. Being able to use around an empty university on the free-range bikes-- it was actually quiet and also surreal." It was actually additionally an examine of what several Johnson employees experienced during the course of the global and how NASA maintains day-and-night support for spaceflight functions no matter extenuating scenarios.Hague now looks ahead to yet another trip to reduced Earth orbit. NASA and also SpaceX representatives currently consider to release the Crew-9 purpose no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will certainly take off from Release Complex 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as well as Dragon space probe.Hague and also Gorbonov will become members of the Trip 72 crew aboard the station. They will participate in NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, as well as will definitely invest regarding 6 months performing clinical study in microgravity as well as finishing a variety of functional tasks just before coming back home.Even more particulars concerning the mission and also staff may be found through adhering to the Crew-9 weblog, @commercial_crew on X, or even commercial staff on Facebook. You may also adhere to @astrohague on X and Instagram.